Bernie McGill's first short story collection, Sleepwalkers, originally published by Whittrick Press and shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize in 2014, has been republished by Belfast's No Alibis Press. This republication includes the short story 'Waiting for Joseph', originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Short Works series. Bernie's second short story collection, This Train is For, also published by No Alibis Press, won the Edge Hill Prize in 2023.   Reviews for Sleepwalkers: 'Bernie McGill is one of Ireland's great storytellers.' Ian Sansom 'These stories are bursting with emotional life, whether the dark swirl of grief to the most potent sensuality. Women deftly navigate their self-definition against the violent past and the hopeful future.' Caroline Magennis in the Irish Times ‘McGill’s plotting is masterful. These are “killer-blow” stories but carefully guards against sensationalism. Her talent for combining keen observation with a kind of symbolic import is evident. Everything is very precisely described, and yet, more unusually, there is a lyric quality to the description. McGill herself brings not only an awareness of literature, but a poetic sensibility to how she layers her short stories as a poet would layer an image – conscious that meaning is ambiguous, contradictory, polyvalent.’ Tess […]